Ward-Lewis Cemetery
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Ward-Lewis Cemetery

Flippin, Monroe County, Kentucky, USA

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This cemetery, also known by its later appellation, "Old Ward Cemetery," has been in recent years more appropriately named WARD-LEWIS CEMETERY in recognition of the original landowners, William Hays Lewis and Elizabeth Lewis, who first established this cemetery. Their gravesites are here but unmarked. Their son, Charles A. Lewis, who died (1862) in service during the Civil War, has the earliest marked gravesite—a veteran's headstone. Some natural gravestones may be overgrown and some may have been dislocated and lost. One-quarter acre was declared and set aside as a cemetery by Elizabeth Lewis, after the death (1872) of her husband, when as a widow she conveyed by Deed in 1873 the farm to her son-in-law and daughter, Clinton and Mary (Lewis) Ward, who were also later buried here. This unusual act of setting aside acreage—of a larger area than is apparent—as a cemetery in a farm Deed conveyed within the family, and other clues, suggest that this site may have served briefly as an early burying ground for Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church (1857-1923), located nearby. Hays and Elizabeth Lewis cofounded (1847) with their neighbors, Elzia and Elizabeth Arterburn, the Methodist Class that grew into Bethel Church. The old road that separated their respective farmsteads proceeded differently, east of the cemetery, until straightened and improved (1949), and an unknown gravesite(s) was reportedly disturbed during road construction. If used as a Methodist burying ground, its use was probably interrupted by the reunification controversy among Bethel Methodists following the Civil War. — Charles R. Arterburn
This cemetery, also known by its later appellation, "Old Ward Cemetery," has been in recent years more appropriately named WARD-LEWIS CEMETERY in recognition of the original landowners, William Hays Lewis and Elizabeth Lewis, who first established this cemetery. Their gravesites are here but unmarked. Their son, Charles A. Lewis, who died (1862) in service during the Civil War, has the earliest marked gravesite—a veteran's headstone. Some natural gravestones may be overgrown and some may have been dislocated and lost. One-quarter acre was declared and set aside as a cemetery by Elizabeth Lewis, after the death (1872) of her husband, when as a widow she conveyed by Deed in 1873 the farm to her son-in-law and daughter, Clinton and Mary (Lewis) Ward, who were also later buried here. This unusual act of setting aside acreage—of a larger area than is apparent—as a cemetery in a farm Deed conveyed within the family, and other clues, suggest that this site may have served briefly as an early burying ground for Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church (1857-1923), located nearby. Hays and Elizabeth Lewis cofounded (1847) with their neighbors, Elzia and Elizabeth Arterburn, the Methodist Class that grew into Bethel Church. The old road that separated their respective farmsteads proceeded differently, east of the cemetery, until straightened and improved (1949), and an unknown gravesite(s) was reportedly disturbed during road construction. If used as a Methodist burying ground, its use was probably interrupted by the reunification controversy among Bethel Methodists following the Civil War. — Charles R. Arterburn

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